plagiarism has a new address!

this is how this letter would have been drafted had it come from my college,

to whosoever who reads this blog,

I 'karthik natarajan' of karthik[no-dot-here!]natarajan[dot]blogspot[[dot]com have started another blog called 'INSpyred'.

the contents of this blog are semi-coherent messages of other ramblers put out there in the universe!...
this is my tribute to the greats words said by great minds that inspired me to jump from great heights and has more often than not put me into great trouble, this is me spreading their, message, cheer and inspiration to the world,

thanks and best regards,


the squintessential human!



if i were to write it:

yo!, new blog! read!


;D

wish i has said it this well...

from the worlds of the great Stefan Sagmeister
one of the greatest designers of our times..

What I like about my job - Stefan Sagmeister
Thinking about ideas and content freely - with the deadline far away.
Working without interruption on a single project.
Using a wide variety of tools and techniques.
Travelling to new places.
Working on projects that matter to me.
Having things come back from the printer done well.

All the things I've learned in my life so far - Stefan Sagmeister
Complaining is silly. Either act or forget.
Thinking life will be better in the future is stupid. I have to live now.
Being not truthful works against me.
Helping other people helps me.
Organising a charity group is surprisingly easy.
Everything I do always comes back to me.
Drugs feel great in the beginning and become a drag later on.
Over time I get used to everything and start taking it for granted.
Money does not make me happy.
Travelling alone is helpful for a new perspective on life.
Assuming is stifling.
Keeping a diary supports my personal development.
Trying to look good limits my life.
Worrying solves nothing.
Material luxuries are best enjoyed in small doses.
Having guts always works out for me.

road rage!

Owing to the traffic and the time it takes me to get from one place to another it helps to occupy your head with crap. some play music, some talk on the phone while driving, some sing, some get pissed some play race
this is my method.i image the ride to be a videogame that i am playing. its a multiplayer/strategy/roleplaying/fantsy meets reality kinda game...
you need to get wherever to save the girl. you have monsters on the road, looking to piss you off, and some times they win and u go home all angry, or you win and u go home less angry after a well deserved victory.
if i was to write a synopses this would be it:

this is how it goes. you have a vehicle and a destination. and you have to be there in a stipulated time. the scenarios change every time you log on. its on your way to office, to a friends house, a simple cruise through the city. could be anything. you come across these obstacles on the road. they again could be anything.. creatures, monsters, zombies, immobile obstacles and a huge array of them. i try to quantify them below.

1. the zombies:
like the name suggests, they are barely there, flesh and bones but totally indifferent to the moving vehicles. they walk/hop/skip/jump/corss and have a very ingenious bag of unpredictable tricks that you have to be weary of. low carnage capacity.

2. the werewolves:
these have similar vehicles like you do. dead in the head, but they just have to get to some place in a hurry, no finesse, appalling riders, really awkward but still in a hurry. mostly found in vehicles at-least one class above its handling capacity high carnage possibilities.

3. the vampires:
purebreeeds. these are the most polished of the villains, smooth riders, clean turns, great control over their own vehicles, cold, oblivious of the damage caused and always ready to move in for the kill. they instigate rage on the streets and finally draw blood. always on the lookout, waiting in dark alleys, with cold eyes and warm engines the scariest in congestion. no regard for anyone around, the more the annoy the stronger they get. very high carnage possibilities.

4. the were-zombies:
these are zombies converted to werewolves. high on damage, low on speed, accuracy, always leave a mess, they are the bulk of the moving mass, they slow you down, cause delay and involuntarily make it easier for the other engined creatures to move in for the kill. damage possiblilty high.

5. the shapeshifters.
these are the worst of the lot. the most unpredictable, the hardest to beat. they ac as all the above as and when they desire and think they are the best of the lot. when actually the only damage they cause is to themselves. always cocky, always trying to pull a fast one and almost never make it.

6. the hyenas:
these are the noisy nuisance. they sit on the sidelines. hunt generally in packs, one mistake and u hit a zombie, vampire, werewolf, a shape-shifter and you are done for it. the hound you, hunt you down and eat you alive with babble. the scariest on the streets are these who actually never are on it. yes.. but they also get mobile every so often and become shape-shifters themselves.

7. the cattle:
they are pseudo zombies, move in packs, not awkward, hyper comfortable and aloof of their surroundings. no regard for safely of their own or the others not in their pack, would very comfortably stop in the middle of a road to graze in on a juicy piece of gossip. also found vehicle borne, again in packs but the simgular ones are deadly .. they would most definitely have a mobile phone to their ear and a hand off the controls! beware!

8. the traps:
these are the worst. these come through some time warp thing. today its a good road, tomorrow it will be a gaping hole! you wont know what hit you, you have no one to blame, no one to scold, just a few cattle around who wont bother and a few hyenas who bother too much!

its the game of life people .. play responsibly!

if i were to sell this as a real life game,, would u buy it?
:)

phoenix rising.

design is evolving. we may not totally approve of what it is evolving into but it is evolving... i was going down university road.(for those in pune know what i am talking about and those outside just read on....) there is a series of fly overs that help you 'fly' for about 6 odd kilometers without a single traffic crossing on the way (which earlier took us around 45 minutes to cross on a good day which were far and too few...) so plying down (aimlessly again... :)!!!) this road you see these new urban 'complexes' as we call them when the only thing complex about them is the fact that how did some being.. having the audacity of calling himself intelligent life form allow for these things to be built. they are visually polluting, maniacally loud, monstrous blemishes on an otherwise serene road (or as it used to be..) and the worst part it that as far as their impressions go all they leave in your mind is a bad after taste. i go down that road each and every day and even then all i can remember is red building, bad design, LOUD, .. never the actual building.. or the things that are there inside it, the point of the loud design was attraction towards the function within .. its lost in the sheer volume of the shout! ... form follows function is all lost in the last reincarnation and now it is the loudest wins...! do people consider the mpact that these buildings have on people that pass by it? isnt it time we also considered the impact of visual pollution? glass facades facing the sun shining on a road? neon lit advertisements, attractive signboards, and a whole lot of other commercial proclamations that if they did their job well.. can cause death or at-least serious disfigurations and not to mention the actual intention of these ads - mangling self esteems. [i try my best to deviate from here and i shall continue the advertisement industry's presence and modus operation... those who know already know.. for those who didnt .. coming soon! ] can we build guidelines for these as well? but then it wont remain a democracy.. design guidelines is as oxymoronic as it gets the only way out is that everyone has to realize .. loud isnt necessary clear.. you could be the quietest and still shout it out... purpose driven design is the best way to move forth... but then who am i to tell . i can only show you what i think is the door.. we all have our own doors to find and walk through....!
things only a road trip can teach:


in no specific order than that in my head....


you are insignificant. the world is larger than you thought.

the only person who really needs you is you.

you are replaceable

your problems start only if you stop.

money is no good when it is your spirit or back that needs mending.

the difference between how far your mind will wander and how close will you get physically to that point is how old you really are.

credit cards are useless.

mobile phones are really only so good.

your only true asset is your health.

addictions only slow you down.

the sun burns, the rain is cold. winds can be both.

distance is just a number.

crazy is good.

speed is overrated.

travel is not.

life is what happens to you now.

roads will have obstacles,

good roads end. so do bad ones.

your hair is dead cells. but what holds it there is definitely not.

looks arent important.

looking is.

its not where you are going. it is that you are going that is the real high.

an MP3 player is my best friend and closest companion.

people are friendly. terrain sometimes is not.

the only real pictures are the one you take with your eyes and store in your head.

photographs dont do justice to memories.

company is over rated.

silence is not.

smiling is an action not a reaction.

a clean bike tells no tales.

dirty jeans speaks a thousand words.

bad design awards.

there is this award conducted every year to commemorate badly designed products. they may be houses, products, packages, services, anythign that has come into existence can contend for this award. its the ignoble of design, or the mock oscars (dont recall what they are called.)

here is my nomination for the awards.
whiskey. 180ml units. tetra pack. who thought of that? logically addressing the given problem. you need a way to transport alcohol. that is cheap to manufacture. easy to transport. easy to store. stackable. attractive to look at as individual units and as multiple unit packs. (a six pack of beer.... ) and the genius came up with a tetrapack! idiot! ever thought of the consequences? ever thought that all u need to get these cartons oodling juice is a blunt object.. thats all.. nothing more.. no bottle openers, no corkscrews.. not that these wont work.. but u dont need them.. a simple pen, a key, a nail, a piece of rock, anything would do...!in a country where we have our fare share of riots and social misbehavior i think the genius should be give the award hands down!

that brings us to the bigger issue t hand,.. how did he arrive upon this solution(????????) what was the process of design? is he some capitalist fruit cake sitting in his office sipping off a vodka and juice when he chances a glance upon the carton of juice kept there and says .. (stoned voice..) u know what we could do.. sell whiskey in tetra packs.. cheap to pack, easy to smuggle into places, easy to transport and safety.. who gives a ****!
Or is it a underpaid designer fresh on design but not on practicality who says .. dude.. labels are so passe.. we need a new way to present our goods.. then he says.. what say to tetra packs.. and the rest of the room says... dude.. that is soooo coool man.. lets drink to this!

i dont know.. and frankly i dont care.. but the conclusion sucks.. on levels beyond reason.. and how is it that it doesnt bother the government that we make fuel to burn that much more accessible! plus the possibility of contamination! the chances of leakage and the possibility of it becoming more readily duplicable by bootleggers.. all this doesnt bother the government who sits in their ivory towers deciding which city to rename next, which industry to target for tax extortion for adding security detail to their fat over fed under intelligent wives!
i am not telling all of them suck.. but if u arent a part of the solution u are definitely a part of the problem.

the phoenix design theory!

it was sometime yesterday afternoon, while aimlessly cruising through the city... again (does any one see a pattern here?) that it dawned on me. that the more complex we make life the lesser chances of survival we have (similar circumstances similar findings.. read on and you shall see the difference in area of extinction!). the simpler we keep things the better chances it has of being sent into the next generation and the generation after. we make our peace with the fact that life will be complex. but it neednt be, its gotta be simpler. we fight for complexities. we werent satisfied wen we made the wheel we needed the bicycle, then the bike then the car then ships the planes then the jets then the supersonics then space,then mars and then beyond until there is nowhere to go. same with design. we started with simple layouts single color sending out the same feeling as if we were witnessing the event. then came in the complex printing the softwares the paper styles and things went complex. they started mocking reality instead of expressing it. it became more a prowess of the technology than of the intended art. art was no longer a medium of expression it was the expression of the medium. messages lost, purpose redefined. architecture also.. it was no longer about the space. it was about the technology used. it was first the decorative styles, then the metal framework, then titanium claddings, the curves, the shapes, the scale , size, color, everything.. it all became about how you build and not what you built. something incredible happened with it... art turned profitable, we could have people making a living as artists, it isn't a luxury of the privileged few, design is no longer a hobby, it is a profession, as architects, movie makers, graphic artists, painters, fabric designers, we have all moved out of our cocoon and gone on to a more profitable state, now we have design houses, corporate owned studios, a more business structured architectural practices where we can get our work done.. butt! wait a minute..... it just got complicated again!... now it is a business dominated enterprise.. creation over creativity... we design because our client requires design, but we design like the client wants us to design and not what the design needs. we may build/colour/design things in a certain way that is most profitable for the designer, by minimized time and effort spent, you get it right for the client the first time... innovation is difficult, specialization necessary and we lost the essence of design somewhere on the way... but what goes around come around.. and now the times a changing again... now is the age of design becoming profitable again.. but this time is isnt client driven, it is designer driven.. the designer is the king, he dictates the rules, the laws and everything involved. and like Kelly Osbourne's tattoo proudly proclaims ... 'this too shall pass!' and god know into what..! we shall rise from the ashes of the past to be burnt again...
last week through aimless wanderings through the streets of bangalore... it dawned on me.. we have plotted our own course for extinction. technology isnt helping us live better.. it is only making discomfort more prominent. earlier if you were ill you ignored it, if you went more ill you rested and if you went more sick you died. simple. now if you fall ill you medicate, then operate and then artificially respire. there is no healing only curing. we drank water from pools, ponds and rivers. now there is purified water, distilled mineral water, water purifiers that distill water with UV light and make it 'potable'. the flip side you dont get your dose of bacteria, immunology 101 daily dose of a little miscreant makes you more tolerant to the element. there are now pills that you can take for everything. and we still struggle to cure common cold. have we really made progress. have we really gone beyond where we were. we havent been able to domesticate a single animal since we moved on from caves. we still are struggling with the idea of prolonging life. but nature has escalated. it moved on. it doesn't strike with common cold and malaria any more. we now die of dignified diseases cancer, AIDS, STDs, and then it laughs at us b throwing in an epidemic or two. bird flu, mad cow, dengue, and what have you. then the natural calamities. the tsunami. the volcanoes, the earthquakes and what do we have against them? nothing.. absolutely nothing. we are still the nasty kid trying to take on the gods thinking that just because it can walk it can out run. and nature is the placid adult toying with us and laughing at our naivety. nature isnt the enemy, it is the watchful adult with the ghost stories to keep you in line. and you better stay that way.. cos these ghosts are for real. and they are deadly. live simple. dont toy what you dont understand, try to understand what you dont. live simple and die when you should.. attempts at longitivity is short-lived...!! think about it...!

no sport this is just a game!

the sport itself has taken a nasty turn here. its hero worship. i know a guy who every week goes to the temple and prays for them with the whole offering and hoopla done. there are others who resign over this game, there are fights, riots, everything a good healthy sport has asa extra baggage this one has, but in confusing measures. but heres the confusion. we hero worship, but not the team, we worship the player. its xyz today, then someday he starts to fray, we worship the next guy and then xyz gets back his thunder by playing better the lights are again on him. its difficult for a fan of the game to look at the team as a whole. then there is the whole patriotic thing you cant cheer for someone else when your country is playing. even if all the players are in through some stupid selectors family connections. yes. the players needn't be good just connected. its odd when you look at sports and you see games being played. dark games, there is politics, like a well rounded soap opera. then there is the match fixing issue. you dont know wether the team you have been praying for, fighting for, resigned your job so that you could watch them play for, may not even be playing for you. they play for the highest bidder, legal or otherwise. have money will play your way. so its rather difficult for a fan of the sport to continue loving the sport because it is not a sport of physical prowess any more. it is the game of the mind.
i set out on trying to understand the origins of the sport from circumstantial evidence. it seems to have originated from england, spread to all british territories and no further. i dont know any other country other than the commonwealth ones to play this game. as far as the origins go it is more of an afternoon leisure activity like golf, or croquet. have some tea, eat a sandwich, play with the men that kinda thing. the only sport not to breed competition but to subdued it. like scrabble it doesn't matter who one. just that you played it. i dont know of any other sport that could have been so un-spoilable. and then they go ahead and spoil it. they made it competitive, they made players stars, and the team a summation of individuals and not the other way around. it goes from a team sport to a single player supported by others in rotation. this was never meant to be as fast paced a game as it has turned into. but then we arent supposed to fly, fight or marry for money...who are we to judge!!!
we won the worlds first T20 world cup. congrats to the indian cricket team. this post isnt about the win itself. i dont care about the sport, i care even less about the team, and a little lesser than that about the fact that wether they won by chance or choice. i mean u won it .. cool congrats moving on...! that kinda thing.but what i do care is the garbage that they generate that makes it difficult us to break the cliches. the post in on the way they took the winning of the cup. first the pre final match with australia, absolute no respect for the game, team or country, behaving like a bunch of Neanderthals on the field isnt sporting spirit. ok so u get a fine the next day, but the damage is not monetary its the, indians are barbaric on the field thing that bothers me, every time you sledge on the ground there is a bunch of people that could matter making an opinion of that which you represent. my country. patriotism isnt shouting at the top of your voice with a bleeding heart and the country flag. its to act in a way that you belong to civilization. agreed the win was surprising. but the behavior was unforgivable. when you win a game you dont look like you didnt expect to win.. you gotta conduct yourself like you have been winning all your life and you dont know life otherwise. not the way things went down there. we looked like a bunch of oppressed teenagers after their first chat with a female. excited and stupid.

ok lets say we forgive their sins of conduct and appreciate their win even so . we as a nation behaved ridiculously. we ran an entire newspaper edition celebrating their win. we had articles with interviews of the german who sat next to the capt. on his flight back..! why? dont we have anything else happening in this so called great nation of ours? we won a series .. fine move on.. gets some rest, and get to practice in the morning. you interview their parents, wives, children neighbors, the gardner, the watchman.. and how far will this go? dont people in this country have better things to do than read dirt?

ok lets say we forgive the media also for this. i mean they are feeding us garbage cos we ask them for it. but can we forgive ourselves? the same sport, nearly the same team, was dishonorably removed from the world cup not so long ago... and when i say removed,.. we were literally thrown out by the underdogs.... ! the boys come back home heads hanging low and we have a bunch of housewives at the airport wearing full cricket gear standing under the sign that read"wanna play?". now we get them to our country, we give them gifts worth millions, a guy gets 1Cr for hitting 6 sixes in a row... and a porche, and a house in any city of his choice, plus the state govt. showering them with gifts....! how shameless are we? if you win you are everything to us if you lose we tar and feathers you and run you off our property! and this is only true for cricket.. we are a lot more tolerant otherwise.. you win the world championship anywhere else.. ok cool get back home and better yourself... unless you are piping hot and can endorse a cola.. then you are the ruler of the universe..! we have a chess genius in our hands.. and we dont bother, we have a brilliant hockey team.. we dont let the success get to their head, we have athletes running bare foot for lack of sponsorships.. that doesn't matter.. but if we win a cricket series .. hurray! whats so great about this sport? its a test of patience and not stamina. its more about timing than strategy off the field.
i am not saying that dont celebrate them, just that celebrate every victory equally. and please behave! the hockey players, the chess champs, the tennis players, the athletes work as hard as the cricketers. you may be the best at what you do, but thats only how good you are. you are not gods, certainly not mine.

social changes.

we were exploring the reason for how the success rate of arranged marriages has reduced drastically in comparison to earlier generations. Divorce was a taboo word till very very recent times. incompatibility was never a consideration. the initial system was, everyone lived together no individual egos to play with no personal space. packed like sardines in a can stacked for transport. there was nothing called compatibility. the purpose of marriage was procreation and supporting the larger family. marriages was for progression of the family size. you have 3 daughters and 4 sons, i have 3 daughters lets talk business .. that kinda thing , all match making happened through word of mouth. there were these matchmakers who came later into the picture but even they were only well connected individuals who know people and so as long as the families were compatible it all worked out for everybody. then we exploded as a population, you couldn't have individuals that well connected families became smaller the largest having 3 kids.. individuality bred like crazy.. they still thought an arranged marriage would work if we got them on a common platform and this led to the advent of the matrimony sites. single male in bangalore seeks girl :: single female in delhi seeks male.. bingo! no past no present accounted for .. marry and merry. but the idea is bombing. individuals are literally jump into the sack with no prior knowledge of each other. and then what? the girl has to live with the guys appetite for death metal and he has to put up with her addiction of mush.. and sometimes it could be worse if the girl has a thing for death metal and the guy for mush!!!! i know guys who still cant decide with their girlfriends of 3 years if she's the one, and here we are expecting people to live off the rest o their lives with someone who you barely know for the last month and a half and is putting his best foot forth. kinda difficult to envision success. i think we are making the transition from the society moving from a unit driven individual to a individual as a unit.
as an architect we studied stone buildings and how they were actually mocking wood structures. Then i thought that how is it that we ran out of ideas then to actually not develop details in stone indigenously and ape age old systems of buildings. but then we were silenced by the whole what will be has always been and how it is actually the same principle that construction follows and hence the similarity in design and detailing. plus there is a similarity in the structural behavior of stone and wood. but then hundreds of years later we started to mock stone buildings. and we got good at it. we aped the aped better than ever before. we made cement look like stone , slurry look like marble. we have even got to a point of making one type of stone look like another, cement look like wood, plastic look like glass concrete to look like wood. its like somehow we hate the original nature of things and are always looking to change them to ape something else entirely. Most that i have talked to have called it progress and how they are trying to better present materials to relive the glory of the items of the past. its not only true for architectural design. its also true for vehicles. you hear of people spending millions on old school bikes with new age electronically triggered engines.people customizing their new bentleys with old school suicide doors. our parliamentary buildings ape the traditional designs of years bygone. we have a hard time getting to the point of moving on and when we do we have already moved to a newer past that we are nostalgic about. this is the nature of man as i see it and this to me is the essence of all design. louis khan was right "what will be has always been" it doesn't meant that we have invented all that was worth inventing. it means that we always will look back and the the future to somehow be a commemorative of the future. we made alarm clocks to praise the lord. we made lamps of LEDs to make them look like oil burning ones. we make digital microphones to look like old school microphones. we have telephones to look like old time instruments. there has to be something that makes us want to live in the past all the time. and we get good at it. our stone work is impeccable, we have mastered moulded plastics, concrete as a fluid material, metal also contributes to our fascination with the past. but is this how deign progresses? retro for the future?

questions for life!

1. would it help if the money we spend on videos to make poverty history was spent on making poverty history...?

2. is it discomforting that sham.poo means a shit scam?

3. why is it that when you sit down to write that questions that bother you so much nothing comes to your mind?

4. still to come!

y r v the way v r?

how is it that one city in a country is more intimate and less connected and another one less than a couple of hundred miles away seems less intimate and more connected. how is it that certain cities appear really distant and impersonal at a level have well established networks that make communication and information exchange easy. where as certain cities are very intimate in their scale and structure but very disconnected in existence? is it something to with the people who live there? or the development of the city from its past to now.....
lets map the growth of these cities. bangalore came up in the last 10 years or less from a sleepy small town to this monstrous urban sprawl with an unprecedented growth rate. a major chunk of the cities population is immigrant worker in the service and IT and most of these here are between the age group of 25-40. it is a young city with immense infrastructure at their disposal but with limited land available. the public events are far and few the social instances are limited to a few concerts an performances every month. no public gathering space in the city that is functioning to its desired capacity. even nature is against it. no hills around it no beaches where people could gather around and engage in any sort of community activity. prices are high and opportunities aplenty. but people on person seem disconnected. they move about without even a flick of recognition. boundaries drawn firmly around houses, curfews strict. the sleeps early rises late. i have friends here who have a 8 pm deadline (just to give you a yard stick: back home in pune i would leave home at 10 in the night to meet friends and hang around doing nothing till 2-3 in the morning without hinter and geographically and historically we share similarities with bangalore.)
but everyone here knows everyone. they connect on the internet. they still stay in touch through non-intimate modes of communication. voice/text/electronic any means necessary. they interact, they communicate. you do something on this end of the city and people in the other end of the city know of it. it is transparent beyond my understanding. you start something today, an by the afternoon everyone knows.

chennai has had a more stable growth rate. its still spawned from a capital city before independence, the struggle for independence has left more violent scars on the city, its has a smaller immigrant population in comparison to city one but has a larger industrial growth. education is more of a business here in comparison to the earlier city under question. there are music festivals, the corner teashops the small businesses with the local grocery store selling everything form greens to phone recharges. the coast line is always crowded with people gathering there for food, or fun. the city sleps late and rises early. but news travels slow. for any one to establish them selves as a formidable entity it can take years of work. you could swindle half the town and people wouldn't take notice unless you have gone through a considerable chunk of the population.

why the contrast? what keeps the connection distant. why does new travel faster in one place and in the other it just doesn't move? both cities have seen a boom in the last few years and both have been influenced by the dot come boom and bust. what is it about people that makes them connect and disconnect?
the possible answers are aplenty. literacy, exploration of communication avenues. the number of locals that move to the west, immigrant population, city size, general social structure,
damned if i knew.
we are all meant to die!
did the dinosaurs not try to avoid extinction?did they also call in the conservation and environmental designer and get their lives reorganised to last a few years longer? if we were meant to preserve ourselves for ever wouldn't nature have given us a way to do so already? the question is all these methods of conservation that we are so fondly advocating are against the natural course of existence...!
we have already started screwing the planet over by increasing the life expectancy of man by a few years. infant mortality rate has also gone down by a considerable amount, we are eliminating more and more diseases each year... you call this progress right? if nature was writing a dictionary.. this would be listed under infestation.according to nature... we gotta eat, gotta sleep and eventually gotta die.. we are screwing with the survival of the fittest theory people! we don't let the old die and we don't stop the new from coming... so we grow and grow, and grow..... until there is no more to grow into!!!! and then we plan to move to the moon, mars, and beyond.. until when?
we are destined to die.. this party is almost over.. pack your bags and leave dorothy cos kansas is going bye bye! the sooner we come to terms with it the better it is for us.. let nature take its own course and we may go further.. we try to alter natures course. and there is justice in this world in a way that we wish there wasn't. solution.. no prayer for the dying, kill the kids and bring your daughter to the slaughter. :) kidding.. i don't know what to do... i only got this far...!
design studios = multi-cusine restaurants?over the years people considered architect who have in house structural designers and contractors to be the way design to progress.the restaurant case study, vertically divided with a impermeable distinction, multiple chefs cooking their specialty cuisine without borrowing any influences from the others cooking around him. or him the rest dont exist as he has nothing to learn from them or teach them.

 design studios=lalapalooza over the last couple of years it as begun to dawn upon us that design has jumped the gun, and has moved on to a larger umbrella of design verticals, architecture depending on artists to add excellence to their work has been happening since the beginning of time and before, but since the nature of design has evolved the form of artistic expressions has also evolved, from murals, sculptures and paintings it has moved on to more complex interactive technology driven artifacts like scrolling screens outside the nasdaq building, or the heat sensitive paint in restaurant lobbies, the printed graphics in lobbies and mediatheques with interactive walls. the lalapalooza theory where artists of various genres come together and collaborate on new material, revisit past works to improve styles, techniques, borrow and exchange influences, deconstruct and rebuild their style of working and with every such fest we come closer to losing the extra baggage that we carry as designers and restart our creative thinking with fresh perspectives and newer influences.
movement versus travel. all my life i have gone down the same roads over and over again to the same places, and yet this time something is different. this time its more personal. its more intimate.is it the mode of transportation or just in my head? it probably was the bike, a new view of the old roads. 15 day of pure travel seeing things for the first time in new light. the roads seemed better. the people friendlier. the police trying to help you with friendly smiles and brotherly concerns. india seemed healthy, with all the super highways, and the development that you find along them. i was impressed. it wasnt at all what i was told it would be. skeptics did their job on my head when i was leaving. the whole oh the highways are unsafe. the village people are unfriendly, cops scary, bandits abundant, and such. and now innumerable rides later i am of reformed faith. i believe it is the cities that have gone to the dogs, its is us who are hostile and unfriendly, the bandits live amongst us, and the roads are just the conduits laced with all the goodness left in the world. the 4500 kilometers of indian highways,the countless people,teach you survival, the importance of living over existence. the true worthlessness of money when it comes to doing what you really want.
been quiet a while since i wrote!
so here goes nuthin..!
well i have been unemployed for the last 50 days or so.. of whihc i spent the first 10 preparing for the next 20 which i spent as what you could call as the best time of my life ever.. past present future put together...! i went on a 4000Km ride all over the south of india.. still have a lot of gound to cover .. but it will happen..
now i am back... its been 20 days .. the aches, the pain and the nostalgia has worn off. i am now coming to the realisation that life truely is ..
its boring.. its difficuilt.. and man!!!... it is a toughie...
the things you have to do not to get bored to death .. yours or someone elses!!!
this is the system i have deviced!..

1. Take a very complexly lyriced song...and type lyrics...then go online and verify if you got it right...
memorize it.. and then translate it literally to make absolutely no meaning... repeat..

2. Watch a movie... analize the living lights out of it.. twist it turn it drop it off a 20 foot bilding till it means the exact opposite of what it was intended to be...repeat..

3. Read a book... re write it from the twist as though u are writing it for the first time.. question every move.. what if.. why not..
throw ina few surprises of your own.. an then see what yu get out of it.... repeat..

4. write a blog.. repeat...

5. read the blog you just wrote..and finally .. repeat!

if this doesnt get you thro. then god save you...!.. cos i sure cant!
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